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Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH-82C
N6853 is a Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH-82C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bethany, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 2, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- TIGER MOTH DH-82C · all TIGER MOTH DH-82Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Tiger Moth: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric. This is how the Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH-82C family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1600
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A9188B (octal 52214213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 2015
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 2, 2016
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00032482
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- King Geoffrey R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 27 Whippoorwill Ln
Bethany, CT 06524-3425
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N6853 links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH-82C 7 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- de Havilland Engine GIPSY MAJOR 89 aircraft with this engine series · 140 hp
- Bethany, CT 4 aircraft registered in this town
- Connecticut 1,609 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N6853, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to King Geoffrey R, an individual, certificate issued October 20, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 2, 2016, 74 years after the 1942 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1600 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6853 according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N6853. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data